A Centennial of Green Gables

[bitterwind]

"Anne of Green Gables" was published 100 years ago this week. It's perhaps a little unmanly to admit, but long after my childhood, it's still one of my favourite stories. It has such a timeless, ageless quality filled with interesting characters. I so admire that it is a story without villainy other than the misunderstandings and mistrust of

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[liadra]

Anne was always one of my favourite books, too. I remember getting it when I was in grade five and reading the series cover to cover. It was perfect!

And I can see you as a Matthew, too :)

[bitterwind]

I remember that it was the first pictureless novel that I ever read on my own, but I can't remember any more what grade it was in.

[lynedd]

Of the Anne books, it was the last one, Rilla of Ingleside, that I loved the most.

...but Emily is my favourite LMM heroine. By far.

[bitterwind]

As special as AoGG is to me, I've never felt interested in reading the other books covering her later life ... as open-ended as it was, it felt complete. (although I did enjoy the follow-up miniseries the CBC did)

[lynedd]

*nodding* I didn't much care for the books that covered Anne's life, either. The last in the series is really about Rilla, Anne's youngest daughter, and her coming-of-age during WWI. Anne really took a back seat in that story.

[bitterwind]

I fear I never got into the WWI Anne tv-movie the CBC did, but I'm curious how much of that book they cannibalized to tell it.

(Anne and war are just not a combination that sits well in my imagination)

[sylrayj]

I'm still adrift, like I was before I met Patricia, who adored Anne. Some things are improving; I'm getting a bit better able to recognize people, and at the very least I know not to step forward unless I'm sure next time. Friends have come and gone, and some are dearly missed. Things... just are.

I hope that wherever she is, Patricia has a beautiful daughter and can share Green Gables with her.

[bitterwind]

I feel like I'm missing a few chapters of this story ...

[sylrayj]

Quite a few, actually. :) I'm grateful for the chapters that have you in it though. :)

[whatawookie]

I can see the parallels between you and Matthew, to be sure. It was a very well written story, although I found the series lost a lot something after the 3rd book or so.

[bitterwind]

The trouble is that after the first book, she has mostly grown up and found a niche in the world, going from a leaf on the wind to having both feet on the ground with a fork in the road ahead of her. It's not what she chooses to do with her life that is interesting to me, its following her growth to the point where she actually has a choice.

[lynedd]

LMM never intended to write more than the first book. Reading her letters, you'll hear her lamenting that she'd killed off Matthew, something she would not have done so soon if she'd known the story would continue for so long.

So yeah, AoGG is really the story LMM meant to tell.